HITS welcomes spectators to its Saugerties show grounds to experience international-level hunter and jumper competitions that bring equine stars from around the globe right to the Hudson Valley.
Horse show schedule:
HITS-on-the-Hudson IV: July 15-19
HITS-on-the-Hudson V: July 22-26
NY Horse & Pony Show (VI): July 29-August 2
Notes: Open Weds.-Sun. from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Grand Prix...

In 1936, Noel A. Vicentini and George Herlick were sent by the Works Progress Administration to document the Shakers and their way of life. Thanks to his striking images, Vicentini captured the Shaker culture and helped inspire a national design anesthetic.

Including more than 10 outdoor sculptures — many of them working fountains — and several indoor ones, the exhibit by the celebrated artist explores the effects of running water. Also on view is Outlooks: Luke Stettner, which is composed of the artist’s photographs, drawings, and sculptures of handmade paper.

Sing yourself into a better state of being on Sunday mornings. Start your week off from a place of inner sanctity using voice to restore balance, heal and connect in the therapeutic soundscape of symphonic gong, singing bowls, flute, didgeridoo, guitar, bass, spoken word and more.

HVCCA launches a year of exhibitions and education programs exploring the artistic representation of Love: The First of the 7 Virtues and its antithesis, Seven Deadly Sins: Lust (scheduled to open April 19, 2015). Developed as a Fairfield Westchester Museum Alliance collaboration, each museum will explore a different sin and, in some instances, its parallel virtue.
Artists included in...

Visit each of Shawangunk Wine Trail's 14 unique wineries once over the course of five months. You will set out on a self-guided tour of 14 of the Hudson Valley’s finest wineries. You’ll receive a limited tasting of four wines, specially selected by the winemaker, at each winery.

Fairy tales have universal appeal thanks to the happily-ever-after endings — and the sins against which they warn us. Multimedia artist Adrien Broom uses classic fairy tales to highlight various ways jealousy manifests itself in The Seven Deadly Sins: Envy. Part of the Seven Deadly Sins inaugural exhibition of the Fairfield/Westchester Museum Alliance in which...

The annual Story Walk program is back. Participants are led down a wooded trail while listening to a classic children’s story. This year’s book is Red Fox at Hickory Lane by Kathleen M. Hollenbeck. California Pizza Kitchen will be on hand with food and drinks to sample, and each child will get a free bookmark. Program runs through September 27. Recommended ages 8 and...